Using meteoric 10Be to track fl uvial sand through the Waipaoa River basin, New Zealand

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-50

  Reusser, Lucas J ^a   Bierman, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE TOOL; HEADWATER BASINS; IN-SITU TECHNIQUES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MIXING MODELS; NEW ZEALAND; NORTHERN REGIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RAPID ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASINS; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENT SOURCES; TWO-COMPONENT; WESTERN REGION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEFORESTATION; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; WATERSHEDS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; DEFORESTATION; EROSION; GULLY; QUARTZ; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TRIBUTARY;

GISBORNE; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIPAOA RIVER;

EID: 73849145153     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30395.1     Document Type: Article

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